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The first of our showers is the Delta Aquarids, with a broad three-day maximum running from July 29 through 31.
Nearly 60 percent of the world population will be in a good place to see the entire eclipse from beginning to end.
When the first astronauts walked on the moon as part of the Apollo Program, the concept of lunar habitats ceased being the ...
New research from University of California, Irvine suggests over 200 known exoplanets may be significantly larger than ...
The best views of the September 2025 total lunar eclipse will be in Asia and western Australia. According to Time and Date, a ...
On Aug. 2, 2027, the longest remaining total solar eclipse will come to Spain, North Africa and the Middle East. Here’s where ...
The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...
According to NASA, the Perseids is considered the best meteor shower of the year, largely due to the long streaks of color they leave as they head through our atmosphere, as well as their sheer ...
The next full moon will be on Saturday. Aug. 9. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 3:55 a.m. EDT (0755 GMT), but local moonrise times vary depending on location. The moon will still ...
A waning gibbous moon, by now rising late at night, will appear first, followed by the steady, golden glow of Saturn. They’ll ...
According to NASA, the Moon turns red during an eclipse because of how the Sun's light interacts with Earth's atmosphere. As ...
A lunar eclipse happens when Earth passes between the sun and the moon, with our planet’s shadow darkening the lunar disk. Rather than going completely dark, the eclipsed portion of the moon can ...